5 Things Tag

5 things I was doing 10 years ago:

1- Getting lost in the halls of Davis High

2- Learning to love marching band and the people there

3- Working at the Pretzelmaker

4- Learning to REALLY do my hair and make-up (wow, was that a crash course that took a long time with some very... interesting looks that I wish I had never been seen in public sporting!)

5- Realizing that I couldn't be a cheerleader and be on the track team... I went with track (I really did have plans to try out for cheerleader, but I was way more comfortable on the track team and I didn't want to risk losing that for something I wasn't even sure I'd make it on)

5 things on my to-do list for today:

1-Start cleaning the basement (Curtis' birthday party is planned to be down there on Saturday... lots of work ahead)

2- Do the dishes (they've been waiting days for me... ahhh!)

3- Try a new hairdo that I just found on my daughter

4- Look at more houses

5- Get dressed

5 snacks I eat:

1- Cake

2- Halloween candy (although not much anymore... Adelyn's out of the good stuff)

3- Chocolate

4- Carrot sticks (or at least, that's what I should eat)

5- Crackers (or anything else the kids want to snack on)

5 things I'd do if I were a millionaire:

1- Pay tithing on that

2- Buy the land and build the house I really want

3- Pay off everything I owe anything on

4- Buy the coolest swingset ever

5- Save a ton... or maybe not after #2-4

5 places I've lived (in no particular order):

1- Kaysville

2- Ogden

3- Clearfield

4- Kaysville (in two different places)

5- Ha ha! I was stretching it for #4. I haven't lived in 5 places! How lame is that? Curtis would have to pick his favorite 5 from all the places he's lived. Maybe soon...

5 jobs I have had:

1- Pretzelmaker at Pretzelmaker

2- Waitress at Joanie's

3- Sales Associate at Meier & Frank (every once in a while I still introduce myself on the phone using part or all of the phone intro I learned there... oops!)

4- Secretary for a stock broker

5- THE billing department for an elderly care company

Those are not all, but it said 5

5 people I tag:

1- Curtis

2- Michelle

3- Michelle (so as not to get confused, I'll just put you both on, Shelly, Mishi)

4- Kaye

5- Alicia

Halloween!!! (finally)

Sorry this is so long, but there's lots to catch up on.

First off, my mother gave Adelyn and Hadley these cool Halloween shirts. (they lit up whenever they moved)

The kids were pretty fascinated with them.

We carved pumpkins at Curtis' parents' house. That was fun. Curtis and I got pictures off the internet and did our best pretending they were "skinning" patterns. I think we did pretty well. This one is Curtis'.

This one is mine.

I carved a pumpkin like this a couple years ago that I just loved, so I wanted to do it again this year. This time Curtis helped and it still took me more than one night to do it (three to be exact). By the time I finished, I had to hold it together while I carved. It was cute when I finished, but I'm not so sure it was worth it...

(the carvings go all the way around -- it's supposed to be a table centerpiece)

...because the next morning it looked like this... (and it looked completely "melted" by the next evening -- sorry I didn't get a picture of that)

On to costumes.

Adelyn was a ballerina.

Look how cute her little bun is.

Curtis was a party pooper (or so his mom says, because he never dresses up). Although, maybe that's for the best because I'd never get both kids and me dresses up in time if it wasn't for his help. He says he doesn't like the holiday and he has yet to help me decide on costumes for the kids and myself, but he's extremely helpful when it comes to finding the costumes (we get most of the pieces at Savers) and getting them ready and on. (I'll bet he spent at least half an hour popping the lenses out of my glasses for my costume last year)

Then there's me... I'm not going to tell you what my costume was. You'll just have to guess, but here's a hint. Last year I was Professor Trelawney from Harry Potter. This year I was also a Harry Potter character (Harry Potter two years in a row was not on purpose), but not a professor. (this picture was last year -- wow, you can barely tell I was pregnant -- or so I think)

This is this year's costume. Who was it?

I've even got the feather. Sorry there's no pictures of me turning into a bug.

Hadley was a cow. Sorry I didn't get very many pictures of him. I never even got one of his cute tail. Blake (Curtis' brother) was an "outpatient". This picture doesn't do him justice. He was in scrubs (his hospital gown) and he had stitches all over his face.

Mysti (my sister) was a black angel.

Jaylee (our friends' little girl) was something... a halloween ballerina fairy or something. Whatever she was, it was adorable. I swear we took some pictures of her mom but I can't find them anywhere. She was Sarah Palin and she totally looked the part.

And last, but certainly not least, Joni (Curtis' sister) was Syndrome. I thought she looked awesome. She even has the red hair.

That was our Halloween. We took Adelyn trick-or-treating and she loved it. At the first few houses we went to we were the only ones around and the people thought she was so cute they gave her more than one piece of candy. She was wonderful at saying "thank you" and "bye", but she usually said "trick-or-treat" right BEFORE they opened the door, so they never heard it. Anyway, back to the candy part. She got used to people giving her extra candy and by the end she would just stand there waiting after they gave her a piece. She wouldn't say thank you and she wouldn't leave until they gave her extra ones or until we took her away. Wow, what a kid.

Malan's Basin

I've been slacking lately. So there will be quite a few posts coming soon to catch up on what's been happening.

A few years ago (before we had any kids) we took a hike up Malan's Basin (above Ogden) to see the fall colors. We took hot dogs and marshmallows to roast at the top and had a great hike. There's a picture of the beautiful colors we saw in my "Husband Tag". About a month ago we decided to do it again. So we packed up marshmallows to roast at the top, two kids in backpacks (and all the supplies that entails), and a dog and went to see the fall colors.

Koda had a blast. I'll bet he covered at least six times the distance we did by running back and forth the whole time. He was always 50 feet ahead or behind us.

The kids never complained and they each took a nap in the packs, so they must have been comfortable.

I was a pansy and we had to take a lot of breaks for me. We never did make it to the top or roast any marshmallows, but it was still fun. The colors weren't quite as vivid as they were three years ago, but they were still pretty and the trip was totally worth it. Although, it told us that we need to do things like that more often... so that we are better at them and don't have to stop before the end. (Really that's just me, Curtis would have made it easily if it was just him and a kid in a pack... or even both kids in his pack if that were possible.)

Here's a waterfall we saw. Sadly this picture doesn't do it justice.

These are the cool kid packs we have (well, we have one and borrowed one exactly like it from a friend). We even figured out how to put one of our CamelBak  bladders in one of the packs.

We never did get a very good picture of the colors we saw. Sorry.

A couple of nights later Adelyn was playing in the kitchen and we didn't think much of it. The next morning I noticed something strange in the apple juice... (sorry the first picture is sideways)

She had opened the lid and dropped at butter knife (with butter on it) into the juice. Gross!